At 09:34 AM 2/19/99 -0800, Greg Skinner wrote:
>Stef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>So, the mystery of what is the ORSC "policy postion" is that ORSC
>>advocates opening up the root to as many TLDs as the market wants.
>>No more, no less! And sooner rather than later!
>
>Hmmm ...
>
>Does anyone have an idea of how many TLDs potentially will be
>registered? For example, how many types of business (or any other
>organizational) classifications exist? Would TLDs be restricted to
>marks only?
>
>The reason I am asking is because once we get to the level of hundreds
>of thousands of TLDs, we risk the DNS performance problems that have
>been discussed earlier. That would have an effect on the entire
>Internet. So it seems at the very least, we need to proceed slowly in
>adding TLDs, so we can study its effect on DNS performance and make
>changes to it if necessary to allow it to scale.
In this case, "slowly" would be defined in the thousands. The problem is
that folks are talking in the single digits. The truth of it is, IMHO,
we'll not even hit 1000 TLDs before Moore's law makes the problem go so far
out that we'll not see it in the next century. I have been dissecting the
BIND code and the system architecture. The only limits I can find are
machine dependent. Most systems are 32-bit processors these days, soon to
be 64-bit. Not many are running BIND on 16-bit processors anymore,
virtually none are running 8-bit (old Coherent and QNX sites).
>Also, in response to Martin Schwimmer:
>
>>In other words, if you added .inc, .ltd., .firm, .shop and .store
>>tomorrow, then anonymous folks could tomorrow register ebay.inc,
>>ebay.ltd, ebay.firm, ebay.shop and ebay.store, all of which, in my
>>humble but professional opinion, are likely to create confusion with
>>our friends over at ebay.com.
>
>This seems to be a reasonable concern, given that there is already
>quite a bit of registration of companies in ccTLDs. Wouldn't the
>companies who are interested in having those names in all (or even
>most) TLDs pursue the same avenues they are pursuing in the existing
>gTLDs?
>
>--gregbo
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